My dear, we live in an age of transition.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.